It’s been a while since we’ve evaluated the Attack on Titan season 2 premiere date. Last we looked, back in December, we finally got official word that the second season was under way. It was a long time coming. But the release date was, and remains, unpleasantly far off: 2016 at the earliest. It’s the price to pay when adapting books, and the Attack on Titan anime team is willing to pay it.

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While 2015 feels like the year of Attack on Titan, thanks to the tremendous diversity of Attack on Titan media properties—movies, video games, OVAs—the original source of the series’ fandom remains dormant. Of course the manga is the ultimate progenitor of the popularity of the series, but in the United States, it was the anime that made Attack on Titan into a phenomenon.

The trouble with the Attack on Titan anime, and with Attack on Titan season 2 in particular, is that it’s dependent on the manga, and until late last year the manga wasn’t far enough ahead for the anime to do a full second season. Hence the long delay. In the meantime, though, all those other media tie-ins blossomed: It’s not like we’ve had any shortage of Eren Jaeger in 2015. But the actual continuation of the plot, in anime form, remains elusive.

Thankfully, Wit Studios is working on season 2 now, for completion in 2016. Will it actually come to the United States that year? That’s a harder question—subs and dubs both take a long time. But at least it will exist. And in the meantime, at least we have all those games to keep us company.